Fusco was convicted for his role in shaking down alleged Gambino mobsters for a six-figure amount to cover the medical expenses of a suspected Colombo associate who was stabbed during some apparent inter-family squabble, and he faced up to two years in prison. However, Brooklyn federal judge Kiyo Matsumoto was channelling Mother Teresa yesterday, and gave the supposedly decrepit old man a medical pass after his defense lawyer recited "a litany of maladies": "Prostate cancer. Three heart attacks. Kidney failure. Claustrophobia. Depression. Early onset of Alzheimer's, to name a few."

09/30/2011

Reputed Colombo consigliere Richard Fusco allegedly wished a federal prosecutor ill health yesterday in a Brooklyn courtroom where he pleaded guilty "to a scheme to shake down the rival Gambinos because he wanted them to pay the medical expenses of a mob stabbing victim" as reported by John Marzulli for the Daily News. Fusco apparently directed the harsh words at the prosecutor after learning the government "wouldn't consent to removing his electronic monitoring device," and a clerk prompty chided the defendant to "keep your negative comments to yourself!"

01/23/2011

Among the 127 suspected mobsters busted in last Thursday's raid are reputed Genovese soldier Daniel "Uncle Danny" Cilenti, reputed Gambino soldier Joseph Lombardi, reputed Gambino consigliere Joseph "JoJo" Corozzo, reputed Genovese associate Peter Pace Jr. reputed Genovese associate Richard "Dickie" Dehmer, and reputed Gambino associate Vincent "Marbles" Dragonetti, and each of them is dished on in turn by the New York Post for their colorful alleged antics. For example, Pace once "boasted to a government witness during a January 2008 recorded conversation" that he dangled his mother-in-law -- whom he described as a junkie -- off a roof: "I brought her up to the f---ing roof about six stories . . . I hung her off the f---ing side of the roof,' he said, according to government documents."

According to law enforcement the take down last Thursday of the entire leadership of the Colombo family largely was the result of "two 'well-positioned' made members -- above the rank of soldier -- and one associate" who broke good for Team America, and now the feds are bracing for retaliatory mob strikes as reported by the New York Post:

"I think they're going to kill people, because the guys running around making the tapes were made members of the family," a high-ranking source close to the investigation told The Post. "I've heard that people are looking to retaliate." * * * The first targets of revenge would be the informants, and then guys who brought them into the family.